Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo (b. Burlingame, California)
Education
2025 MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University
2021 BFA with honors, Rhode Island School of Design
Residencies
2025-2026 NXTHVN Studio Art Fellowship, New Haven, CT
2021–2022 BRIClab Contemporary Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2018 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2018 Lazuli Residency (now Radical Imagination Projects), Corinth, VT
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Real Art Ways, “Common Property: Sun Washed Waste of the West,” Hartford, CT
2022–2023 BRIC House, “Earth & Iron: Archival Visions of Land and Struggle,” Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Westbeth Gallery, "Following the Trace," New York, NY
2025 Mason Gross Galleries, “All That’s Hidden,” New Brunswick, NJ
2025 AM:PM Gallery, “The Space She Holds,” Brooklyn, NY
2024 Picture Theory Gallery, “Mad Black Phantasms,” New York, NY
2023 Mason Gross Galleries, “Sublime Periphery,” New Brunswick, NJ
2023 C1760 Gallery “FEMME F(R)ICTION,” New York, NY
Traveling exhibition: “Rising Voices 2.0: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters,”
2023 Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
2022 The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2022 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2022 Customs House: Museum & Cultural Center, Clarksville, TN
2021 Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2022 Marianne Boesky Gallery “Winner Takes All,” New York, NY
2020 The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art “Rest is Power” Davis, CA
2019 Office & Gallery “The Second Head,” Los Angeles, CA
Traveling exhibition: “XL Catlin Art Prize”
2018 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2018 Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2018 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Publications and Press
2023 Art Cube, “2023 Discoveries Report: Top 100 Early-Career Artists”
2022 Hyperallergic, “Fall 2022 New York Art Guide”
2022 Ghetto Gastro, “Black Power Kitchen”
Selected Awards
2024 Circ Artist Grant
2024 MyMA Artist Grant
2023 Real Art Ways Award
2023 Young Artists New Jersey Relief Grant
2021 The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters, finalist
Interviews
2024 MyMA, “Conversation with Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo,” New Brunswick, NJ
2022 BRIC TV, “Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo: Earth & Iron: Archival Visions of Land and Struggle,” Brooklyn, NY
2020 Museum of the African Diaspora, “In The Artist’s Studio,” San Francisco, CA
Academic Appointments
2024–2025 Part-time Lecturer, Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Drawing 1B: “Drawing in Color”
2024–2025 Instructor, Rutgers Community Arts Institute, New Brunswick, NJ
Drawing Foundations, Painting Foundations, Advanced Drawing, Advanced Painting
2023–2025 Teaching Assistant, Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Thesis & Exhibition A, Thesis & Exhibition B
2024 Teaching Artist, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
“2D Sampler”
2022–2023 Teaching Artist, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
NYCDOE School Partnership: “Swagger and Tenderness: The South Bronx Portraits by John Ahearn &
Rigoberto Torres,” Art as a Catalyst for Change: “Radical Prints”